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After all the todo, the reviewers seemed a little let down to discover that The Vikings was, as the New York Times phrased it, just another "Norse opera." In fact, it is one of the bloodier bores of the season, and the only good things to be said for it are that the scenery is nice, and the book, a 1951 breastseller by Edison Marshall, was worse...
This week a distinguished gallery in London was holding a Picasso show with special fanfare. Reason: Pablo turns 70 on Thursday. Picasso himself, avoiding all the todo, was hard at work in his studio near the French Riviera, fashioning a sculpture of a girl jumping rope. Said he: "I am not going to celebrate...
...himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...
Negro Minister Graham took an optimistic, long-range view of the whole todo: "The net result is all to the good. Those of us who don't want to go along with the American way of life, which is the Christian way, should be shown...
...literary todo, more than artistic attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...